Improved boot-jack



@wird when @mooiere PATRICK CULLEN, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

' Leners Paten: No. 89,633. dated May 4, 1869.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PATRICK GULLEN, of Bridgepo1t,in the-county of Faireld, and State of Connectiout, have invented anew Improvement in Boot-Jack; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe sain e, and which said drewings constitute part of this specification, and repre sent, ini Figure 1, an edge `View extended, also folded, in red, and in Figure 2, an under-side view, looking np.

This invention relates to an improvement in apparatus for drawing boots from the feet, commonly called a. hoot-jack, the object being to make the article more compact when not in use.

'.lo this end, the invention consists in dividing the boot-jack into two lengths, the two hinged together, so that one will fold on to the other, the hinge foriniug the rest or bridge for the support ofthe jack when open.

kIn order tothe clear understanding of my invention, I will fully describe the same as illnstmted in the accompanying drawings.

A is the one part; B, theother part; the part'A formed with an opening, O, into which the heel of the boot is placed in the usual manner.

At the meeting-ends of the two p m'ts a portion of the material projects downwind, and constructed so as to form e hinge, as seen in the drawings, sothat the part B nay be doubled under the pmt A, as denoted in iig. 1, the projecting or hinged part forming the rest or bridge D, to support the jack in proper position.

` I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming a folding boot-jack, as such, I am laware, is notnew; but having thus fully described my invention,

W'lnit I claim as new and useful, lind desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The boot-jack herein described, consisting of the parts A and B, the hinge, with the rest D`, formed upon the two parts, and the said rest constructed so as to hinge the two parts together, in themanner herein set forth.

PATRICK GULLEN. Witnesses:

JGHN H. SHUMWAY, A. J..TIBB1Ts. 

